On this page, we break down the activity planning process into a few simple steps, and guide you to the resources that you'll find useful along the way. A variety of updated and new materials for World COPD Day 2009 are now available; scroll down through the steps below to access them.

Step 1: Choose an Activity
Step 2: Recruit Support
Step 3: Tell GOLD
Step 4: Alert the Media
Step 5: Gather Resources
Step 6: Have a Successful World COPD Day!

	1: Choose an activity
We've compiled a list of activity ideas to help inspire your plans. View Activity Ideas in html Download Activity Ideas (MS Word) For more inspiration, browse through our listings of past and upcoming World COPD Day activities around the world. Top of page
	2: Recruit support
Get advice about activity planning and be the first to find out about new World COPD Day materials and resources: sign up for the World COPD Day eNewsletter. (Subscribers receive early access to key resources such as the World COPD Day press release.) Link up with other World COPD Day activity organizers in your area, and seek advice from organizers of past events, through GOLD’s listings of World COPD Day activities around the world. Talk to others you'd like to participate in your event: local or national government representatives; leaders of your hospital, medical school, or respiratory society; senior centers; anti-smoking groups; prominent people such as athletes and entertainers who either have COPD themselves or have family members with COPD. Top of page
	3: Tell GOLD
Let us know about the activities you're planning for the public, health care professionals, and the media. We'll post the details on this Website. Fill in Web-based activity information form Download activity information form (MS Word) to email to GOLD. Top of page
	4: Alert the Media
Use GOLD’s step-by-step guide to working with the media to help you gain media coverage of your World COPD Day activities. Ideally, you'll begin working on your media strategy 6 weeks before your event. View Media Guide in html Download Media Guide (MS Word) World COPD Day Media Kit: download, adapt, and translate these materials, and use them to help you gain coverage of your event: Letter to Media: To help you introduce yourself and your story to media outlets. Please adapt this letter as necessary depending on the particulars of your event. GOLD Backgrounder: To include in your press pack. World COPD Day Backgrounder: To include in your press pack. Spirometry Backgrounder: To include in your press pack. Radio Ad COPD: Script #1 for a radio advertisement/Public Service Announcement. Radio Ad Spirometry: Script #2 for a radio advertisement/Public Service Announcement. See Step 5: Gather Resources below for more advice and materials for planning a media event. Top of page
	5: Gather Resources
Download, adapt, and translate as necessary the resources that you want to use for your event. English versions of World COPD Day resources are provided here. Be sure to check the World COPD Day Translations page to find resources in your local language! (All materials copyright GOLD 2009 except external links and where otherwise noted.) Posters for Patients and the Public (MS Word) NEW COPD and the H1N1 Virus NEW Preventing COPD Exacerbations NEW COPD and Comorbidities How You Can Help Yourself If You Have COPD How You Can Help Someone Who Has COPD What Is COPD? You Might Have COPD If... Could It Be COPD? The Burden of COPD Quitting Smoking Is the First Step... About Spirometry How To Do Spirometry Posters for Health Care Professionals (PowerPoint) Collection of posters for health care professionals. World COPD Day 2009 Logos (JPG format) Low resolution, for documents High resolution, for posters and banners Credit where credit is due: We are happy for World COPD Day activity organizers around the world to adapt GOLD's WCD materials with local information or statistics, or to “brand” their own materials with the WCD logo. However, we ask that you acknowledge GOLD's hard work in organizing this event: *If you adapt GOLD's materials for your own event, please do not remove the statement that GOLD is the organizer of WCD where this statement appears on various materials. *If you add the WCD logo to your own educational materials, please also include the following statement in your document: “World COPD Day is an annual awareness-raising event organized and sponsored by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). For more information please visit www.goldcopd.org//WCDIndex.asp.” Top of page
	6: Have a Successful World COPD Day!
We hope your event is a great success! After World COPD Day, monitor your local media for coverage of your event Tell us how it went! Remember, it's never too early to start planning for World COPD Day next year! Top of page